this thing has gone 180 degrees back in their face. look, portland is dealing with a staffing crisis that the city created. you had a mayor and council defunding the police by over $15 million. they ended up villainizing these cop. allowing antifa radicals to attack them without the ability to actually defend themselves. huge numbers of these officers quit the force. they re down 150 officers. the truth of the matter is they only have 855 cops in that police department for a city the size of portland and as you point out dealing with record high homicide rates they need several hundred more than that. the police department believes they need 1100 officers to keep the city safe. at the same time what you saw was a huge decrease in 911 call operators to the point where you are waiting up to five minutes in some cases to get an emergency call just picked up. so you are already delayed calling 911. the delay is significant and